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Tricked Myth-Machines : Self-Mythologising in the Poetry of John Forbes and Ted Berrigan
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Tricked Myth-Machines : Self-Mythologising in the Poetry of John Forbes and Ted Berrigan
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'...Duncan Hose examines the personal
mythopoeic tendencies of John Forbes and Ted Berrigan "as a synthetic
poetic praxis of mythography and mythopoesis; that is, a constant rereading
and re-writing of one's own myths." The everyday and the
mythological are thus seen to enter into a dialectical exchange even as
Berrigan's collage method works against self-mythologising. Hose claims
that Forbes's poetry reminds us "that our everyday thinking, our being
interpellated as subjects by our culture, our families, our literature, places us immanently within the processes and logic of myth." He identifies, in
these poets' work, a tension between identity/Self as a composite product
of myth and the active production of the Self through myth.' (Source: Introduction pp. 4-5)
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Tricked Myth-Machines : Self-Mythologising in the Poetry of John Forbes and Ted Berrigan
Subjects:
- Collected Poems : 1970-1998 2001 collected work poetry
- The Poet As His Worst Enemy 1989 single work criticism biography
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